Do Kurdish People Lack a State?
Originally, this writing was written for a festival on the 1st of September 1996 which was called “Peace in Kurdistan Festival.” It is our task to highlight briefly the situation in Kurdistan and refute the crocodile tears by capitalists and their media over Kurdistan. Kurdistan is a land where Kurdish people live in an organised feudal and capitalist system, where working people (especially women and children) are suffering from poverty, ill treatment and oppression from the authorities, who are represented by the Kurdish parties (Kurdish Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) and the PKK of Northern Kurdistan. They are for the freedom of Kurdistan as much as Yasser Arafat (the hero(?) of national liberation for the past two decades) is for the freedom of the poor Palestinian people. After the IRAQI authorities were forced to leave South of Kurdistan in March 1991 by the sheer force of uprisings by soldiers and poor people of the South and Kurdistan of IRAQ, for that short pe
